Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.

The value of craft after software sounds rampant sometimes, expressing the freedom of escaping repetitive taps and clicks to accomplish some assumed tasks. Mixing media, electricity, electronics, mechanics and inert objects Graham Dunning has realised a structured track/performance/open script in his “Mechanical Techno: Ghost in the Machine Music.” More than a proof of concept a machine music declination.

Isn’t ASCII Art a perfect form of “graffiti” in 2010s? The 8-bit aesthetics is among the strongest visual references connecting the analogue recent past with the omni-digital present, so why not adopt it to finally have some public art embedded in the present? In Varberg, Sweden, 2016, the GOTO80 crew (feat: Karin Andersson) did it, choosing (not by accident) the Mo Soul Amiga-font.

The relationship between Andy Warhol and personal computers (becoming quite popular during his last years) has been only partially investigated beyond his Amiga works. In November 2015, Sotheby’s sold his “Apple (from Ads)” (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas) for 910.000 USD, and in catalogue’s notes Warhol tells about his meeting with Steve Jobs insisting to give him one and showing him how to draw (even if still in black and white): “we went into Sean [John Lennon’s son]’s bedroom–and there was a kid there setting up the Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one, but that I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’ And he looked so young, like a college guy. And he told me that he would still send me one now. And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”

Minority Report comes closer… Three huge screens at Birmingham New Street railway station are scanning passers-by and play advertisements accordingly. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-street-station-advertising-screens-9920400

Perligata Roman Language, perl in Latin order of things.

The origins of Perl (which stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language) are rooted in active minds of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Urbana Champaign / Chicago. Thanks to its peculiarities Perl has enjoyed from the start of a certain popularity among programmers, but has been following the development of the World Wide Web that has reached the pinnacle of success because, thanks to its extreme compactness and power, allowed to implement applications that provide a high degree of interactivity. One of the strengths of this language, in fact, is undoubtedly represented by the potential manipulation of text and strings and it is the reflection and the study of these features that the project took shape Perligata Roman Language . Born from the mind of Damian Conway, professor of the Australian School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Monash University, Perligata is proposed as an alternative to the original module that allows you to write Perl programs in Latin. But why in Latin? Compared to other languages, both ancient and modern, English has a lexical structure relatively weak. Much of the burden of a grammatical English sentence resides on those that can be defined positional indicators. A sentence like "the boy gave the dog the food" makes sense only because of linguistic convention according to which the subject precedes the verb, which precedes the complement of term, which precedes the direct object. If we decide to change the order of the terms, would radically change the meaning of the whole sentence. Now, most of the programming languages, uses similar positional indicators. For example, the maximum $ operation = $ next is very different from $ next = $ maximum. In the case of Latin instead, the propositions Puer dedit ESCAM dogs and dogs Escam dedit puer both mean "the boy gave the dog the food" … In general, therefore, the natural languages ​​oldest possess richer lexical structures (such as the declination to indicate number and case) and consequently rely less on the order of the words. In Latin, however, to recognize a subject by a direct object simply because they have different endings, regardless of order. The concept on which it is based Perligata is this: to introduce a notation of the language consists of endings that identify the location of the terms regardless of the order in which they are written, giving a lexical structure to language. At this point, you can not help but think back to Jakobson's notion of code transformation is understood as the defendant, as a rule element by element and reversible, whereby a set of information units is transferred into another set. In this case in fact, the code that, following the information theory, serves to reduce the initial equiprobability at source by establishing a system of occurrences, that is no longer a purely syntactic system, but a system that contemplates organizing in its relevance of the problem meaning of the message, ie its dimension more specifically communicative.